lewie
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Live in Orkney, we have one well straight road.
My mate says he did 130 in his granny's corsa 1.4 16v? Is he taking the piss?
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Fraser Young
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TFB
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lewie
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total fcuking bullshit
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jr
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he speedo says 130, that means about 110 i reckon
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Jambo
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max speed is 112mph IIRC
my speedo must be accurate as this is how fast mine went.
I think your friend may have a small penis
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lewie
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Macca_G
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Tell him to talk from his mouth in future, its far more efficiant than his arse.. 
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lewie
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He drives a 106 normally, nuff said?
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FlamingCorsa
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yea it my do if he gets to 110 then drives it off a really big cliff!!!!!!!!! may just get to 130 then
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Nismo
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i once had a speedo reading of 120 in my SRi allthough that speeeeeedo was well out
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Colin
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quote:
Originally posted by lewie
Live in Orkney, we have one well straight road.
My mate says he did 130 in his granny's corsa 1.4 16v? Is he taking the piss?
Oh I know her 
Nope cant do 130 in a 1.4 im afraid
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lewie
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he wasn't even insured
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Kris TD
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just too show how much the corsa speedos are out, near my house we have one of those flashing signs which tells you too slow down over 30 mph.
in my corsa it didnt flash unless you were doing 40 mph, in my audi a4 it flashes up wheh the speedo reads 33 mph, now go figure, the audi one overreads as it has too by law. multiply that for higher speeds and i recon when my a4 reads 70 the corsa would be more like 90.
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Jambo
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Not all corsas speedos are out.
Mine was fine. Car topped out at 112mph. Exactly what it says on the tin
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Sly_SRi
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Registered: 9th Apr 04
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quote:
Originally posted by Jambo
Not all corsas speedos are out.
Mine was fine. Car topped out at 112mph. Exactly what it says on the tin
yep, mine too, would just creep over 110 and that was it, no more in it!
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stubbsy
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i had an indicated 117mph in my sport, felt like it was going to fall apart though :LOL:
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Paul_J
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All speedo's go out! it's to do with tyres expanding as you go faster. It could of been out originally i.e. when your doing 40 your only doing 36... or it could be accurate originally when your doing 40 your doing 40... but get to speeds like 100 and your tyres will expand equalling some inacuracy.
I've got a road angel that tells me my GPS speed and you can see speedo getting less and less accurate faster you go
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jr
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Registered: 20th May 02
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isnt the f13 box limited to 119 anyway, because i hit te limiter in my 1.4 16v, was running 136bhp though
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langey
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i got about 118 out of my 1.4 16v. but that took me a while to get to lol.
dunno how accurate the speedo is tho. might have only been 100mph lol
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K11 NNL
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Sorry to stand out alone here, but my mates 1.4 16v corsa sport (Brocade yellow one put froward for Doncaster)was doing 120mph....whether the speedo was out a wee bit or not, i can defo vouch that it was hitting those speeds.
Also my old Nova sri 1.4 8v did 132mph flat out.
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langey
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no way a nova does 132mph, especially not a 8v one 
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jr
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the fucking gear box wont do thoses speeds, the f13 is limited to 119 and the f15 to 124 i belive
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K11 NNL
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Yip yellow brocade does have a F15 box.
The nova wasnt standard maybe i should have said that...cams and a bored out bottom end with bigger pistons.
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Ojc
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Registered: 14th Nov 00
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quote:
Originally posted by jr
isnt the f13 box limited to 119 anyway, because i hit te limiter in my 1.4 16v, was running 136bhp though
Intresting, could this be the reason that when aproaching top speed in the Nova with the 1.6 16v with F13 it is near the limiter?
I have never pushed it right to the top speed as I am far more sensible now  but once when I was giving a Zetec-S a arse whooping on a private track in my garden I happened to glance at the rev counter and it was just over 6k rpm and I'm sure my GSi never got anywhere near 6k rpm at top whack.
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Ojc
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quote:
Originally posted by K11 NNL
Sorry to stand out alone here, but my mates 1.4 16v corsa sport (Brocade yellow one put froward for Doncaster)was doing 120mph....whether the speedo was out a wee bit or not, i can defo vouch that it was hitting those speeds.
Also my old Nova sri 1.4 8v did 132mph flat out.
FPMSL even my Nova does'nt read much over 125 when nearly flat out
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